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Storage bag (shifuku) for tea-ceremony utensil

Object Details

Previous custodian or owner
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Provenance
?-1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), method of acquisition unknown [1]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
Notes:
[1] This bag once held a ceramic owned by Charles Lang Freer but was separated from that ceramic at an unknown time for an unknown reason, most likely after Freer's collection was brought to Washington, DC (see note 2).
[2] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920, upon the completion of the Freer Gallery of Art.
Research Completed on March 23, 2022
Data Source
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Date
19th century
Period
Edo period or Meiji era
Credit Line
Freer Gallery of Art Study Collection, Smithsonian Institution
Medium
Silk with gold and silver threads
Dimensions
H x W (flat): 25.5 x 30 cm (10 1/16 x 11 13/16 in)
Type
Costume and Textile

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